‘I was with Elton John this weekend and I told him, “You’re the reason why I stopped the Spice Girls,”’ she explained. ‘I went to see him in Vegas in doing The Red Piano, where David LaChapelle curated the most incredible show with him, and I remember sitting there very near to the front and looking at him singing those songs he’d sung time after time, year after year, and his passion and his enjoyment was incredible, even after all that time.

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‘And a few nights later, I was on stage at Madison Square Garden with the Spice Girls and I thought: “It’s almost like a waste that I’m given this opportunity. I appreciate the time I’ve had with the girls, but I don’t have what Elton can have after all these years.”

‘There was nothing there, other than that my kids were in the audience and I wanted them to see Mummy doing the Spice Girls.’

Victoria also revealed talk of a reunion had completely taken on a life of its own – which reminded her of how ‘awful’ that side of the industry could be.

Discussing those persistent tour rumours – and accusations she is to blame for the lack of a reunion – she vowed this isn’t the case.

‘Every day someone says: “Are you going on tour? You’re the one who’s stopping it.” For me, there was always something else I wanted to do,’ she continued. ‘I had a lunch with the Spice Girls a few months ago to see how everybody was, things spiralled out of control, and I had my lawyer trying to beat down stories that were completely ludicrous.

‘The girls are furious with Victoria for initially agreeing to reunite, then pulling out. At one stage she even threatened to go legal if the girls cashed in on the brand minus her,’ an insider claimed to the Sun.

‘They then took offence to her re-creating her Spice Girls look in a recent Vogue shoot and basically said she was being a hypocrite.

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